Introduction: Seeing Proust in a new light -- Text in context: points of contact and circles of acquaintance -- The Jamesian stream and the Proustian art of consciousness -- Parallels in the penumbra: tracking James's psychology in Proust's novel -- From Jean to Je: experience in the first person singular -- Patterns of palimpsest: James's theories and Proust's prose in the purview of neuro-cognitive science.
